RANCID (Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ) is a free, open-source tool that automates the backup of network device configurations. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install RANCID on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before installing RANCID, we need to install some prerequisite packages. To do this, we can run the following command:
sudo apk add git autoconf automake gcc make perl-dev openssl-dev
This will install Git, Autoconf, Automake, GCC, Make, Perl-Dev, and OpenSSL-Dev.
Next, we need to download and extract the RANCID source code. We can do this by running the following commands:
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/dotwaffle/rancid-git.git
cd rancid-git
To install RANCID, we need to run the following commands:
./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/rancid
make
sudo make install
After installing RANCID, we need to configure it. We can do this by editing the /etc/rancid/rancid.conf file. Here's an example configuration:
LIST_OF_GROUPS="group1 group2"
RCSSYS=git
GITWEBURL="http://gitrepo.example.com/"
RCSSYSLOGON=git
This configuration sets the groups to backup, the version control system to use (Git), the URL of the Git repository, and the login method.
Now that we've installed and configured RANCID, we can run it to backup our network devices' configurations. We can do this using the following command:
rancid-run
This will run RANCID and backup the configurations for the devices in the configuration file.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed RANCID on Alpine Linux Latest and can now use it to automate the backup of your network device configurations.
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